Maija Karalaさんのイラストまとめ

Ammonites, inspired by a great #PaleoStreamCon talk by @TheVidax . Often reconstructed just as carbon copies of the living nautilus, these dinosaur-era molluscs were an extremely diverse bunch.

Thoughtful.

A grandmother Homo habilis pausees to watch a bee-eater. Maybe she wonders what it would taste like, or perhaps it’s something philosophical. Based on the amazing 3D model by @VilleSinkkonen, used with permission.

Xanthism - a "golden" colour mutation - in the giant Jurassic fish Leedsichthys. I revived my long-dormant blog to write about colour aberrations in wild animals, especially ancient ones.
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According to The Inner Bird by Gary W. Kaiser, the true bird is ”a strange goblin-like creature”, ”a puppeteer behind a screen of feathers.” Can’t really disagree here.

The dog - our lovable best friend with the smile of a top predator. No worries, these are all playful faces.

Jakapil, the newly described oddball dinosaur from Brazil, with a rat for scale (it’s tiny!).

As most people have been depicting this animal as rather lizardy, I tried to go into a more fluffy and birdy direction. No idea how protofeathers and osteoderms would work together.

First personal piece in what feels like forever: Longisquama, a somewhat mysterious Triassic reptile from Kyrgyzstan. It combines two of my favourite things: Triassic oddballs and trees covered in epiphytes.

Taste of the open sea.
A little illustration I did for a short story by speculative fiction writer Tenka Issakainen, published in the latest issue of @kosmoskyna. The story is a fascinating dive into the sensory and cognitive weirdness of an octopus.

Cotylorhynchus was one of the very first large terrestrial herbivores ever and honestly kind of looks like a first attempt. It was an Early Permian synapsid, a mammal relative rather than an actual reptile.

Wip for a book illustration.

@sannisii Tiedetoimittaja ja kuvittaja. Piirrän nykyisiä, esihistoriallisia ja joskus kuviteltujakin eläimiä. Kirjoitan eläimistä, evoluutiosta, esihistoriasta ja luonnonsuojelusta. Toisinaan käyn tekemässä luentokeikan. Tekisin ihan tätä samaa, vaikka ei tarvitsisi työskennellä elääkseen.